I was sitting in my house when I heard a noise that sounded like a car door slamming in my driveway only a little bit stronger than that. Curious, I got up and went to the door to see who it was There was no one there. I went outside to see if I could figure out what caused the noise when I saw smoke billowing up into the sky. Across the street and down the hill from my house was this service van that had caught on fire. It was a very dramatic afternoon.
Sorry for the lack of clarity. I did not have my camera with me. My iPad took the photo.
Whoa! More excitement than I’d want in our neighborhood! Though we do get that (excitement) more often than I like partly because of our sketchy neighbors and partly because we live right above the daytime medical helicopter landing pad... also known as the baseball field.
Oh wow- I think that's even more exciting than being awoken by firetrucks across the street at 5 am in the morning when the flu didn't work in our neighbor's wood stove!
@pej2@eudora@wyomingsis@dutchothotmailcom@lesip@shutterbug49@ludwigsdiana@onewing@louannwarren@annied@sdutoit@kwind@tunia@gijsje@monicac@randystreat Thanks everyone. Fortunately no one was hurt but the fire was bad enough that it melted vinyl on the eaves of the house, scorched some bushes, adn melted power wires going to the house. The fire department came in a tanker truck and they emptied it without putting out the fire. They had to resort to the hydrant to get enough water to put it all out. There were multiple explosions from popping tires, other components of the van and propane tanks. It had the potential to be something serious but there was only proerty damage and no loss of life!
@marilyn It was an interesting afternoon to say the least and something that we seldom see around here, but then we don't live near the helicopter pad/baseball field either! ;~}
